CVE-2026-47770CWE-674

jq: stack overflow in deep structural equality

Medium · published June 25, 2026

CVSS v4.0
6.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

jq is a command-line JSON processor. Prior to 1.8.2, comparing two sufficiently deeply nested arrays with the == operator exhausts the C stack on jq's ordinary command-line surface, resulting in denial of service via stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion). The crash occurs in jq's recursive structural comparison code, with the recursion repeating through jvp_array_equal() and jv_equal() in src/jv.c when comparing deeply nested arrays; a nearby sort comparator path through jv_cmp() in src/jv_aux.c overflows the stack at a larger nesting depth from the same missing recursion guard. Anyone running jq comparisons on attacker-controlled deeply nested JSON values, or embedding jq in a context where untrusted data can reach the == comparison path, is affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.8.2.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00147 · 3.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-674 · Uncontrolled Recursion
Published
2026-06-25T17:22Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUN 17:22Z
    jq: stack overflow in deep structural equality
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